Technology Is Changing How We Live, But It Needs to Change How We Work
13th January 2017
Ezra Klein has some some shrewd observations.
When a grave-faced announcer on CNBC says “technology stocks are down today,” we all know he means Facebook and Apple, not Boeing and Pfizer. To Thiel, this signals a deeper problem in the American economy, a shrinkage in our belief of what’s possible, a pessimism about what is really likely to get better. Our definition of what technology is has narrowed, and he thinks that narrowing is no accident. It’s a coping mechanism in an age of technological disappointment.
“Technology gets defined as ‘that which is changing fast,'” he says. “If the other things are not defined as ‘technology,’ we filter them out and we don’t even look at them.”
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“We were promised flying cars; we got 140 characters,” he likes to say.